It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.